Emergency Access

Do you worry about your family, friends, partner, or spouse having access to important accounts should something happen to you? Do you want an easy way to give them the passwords and logins they’d need to manage accounts on your behalf? Prepare for the unexpected and ensure your loved ones don’t get locked out of important accounts, like paying bills or the mortgage, and that they can manage your digital legacy.

With the Emergency Access feature, you can give trusted family and friends access to your LastPass account in the event of an emergency or crisis. Your designated Emergency Access contact(s) can request access to your account and securely receive the passwords and notes without knowing your Master Password. You decide how much time should pass before they’re given access once they request it, and you can decline access if it’s requested unnecessarily.

Emergency Access can also be used as an alternative account recovery feature. If you worry about ever forgetting your master password and want to ensure you have a backup way of recovering your vault, set another person as your Emergency Contact. When needed, they can access your data.

Please note: the person you share access with will need their own LastPass account as well.

Enable Emergency Access

Your Emergency Access contact must have a LastPass account. If they do not, we will help you send them an invitation for them to join LastPass so that you can add them as a contact.Note: After the invitees create their LastPass accounts, you will need to re-add them.

Accepting Emergency Access

Under the People Who Trust Me καρτέλα, find your invitation listed in Pending.

Tap the person and choose Accept Invitation

Managing Emergency Access

You can add or remove anyone from your Emergency Access contact(s) at any time from your vault, and adjust the waiting period if needed. You can also remove yourself as someone else’s Emergency Access contact.

Remove a contact. In the Emergency Access center, hover over a contact to reveal the X. Click the X to remove the contact.

Adjust the wait time. In the Emergency Access center, hover over a contact to reveal the tool icon. Click the tool icon to edit the time.

Remove a contact. In the Emergency Access center in Settings, tap a contact and choose Remove Emergency Access Rights

Revoke Emergency Access rights. In the Emergency Access center in Settings, tap a contact and choose Revoke Emergency Access Rights. This will rescind the invitation.

Adjust the wait time. This can only be adjusted on Desktop.

Requesting Emergency Access

Emergency Access can only be requested if you’ve been invited as a trusted Emergency Access contact and have accepted the invite. Access will only be granted once the pre-designated waiting time period has passed. This time period cannot be changed except by the original account owner, and cannot be adjusted once Emergency Access has been requested. To request Emergency Access follow these steps:

Υπό People Who Trust Me, hover over the name of the user whose Vault you need access to.

Tap the Request Access option and the process will be initiated.

Once access is granted, their Vault will appear as a folder in your own Vault and will be labeled with their account email address.

In the LastPass App, μεταβείτε στο Ρυθμίσεις μενού.

Open the Emergency Access center.

In People Who Trust Me, tap the name of the user who’s Vault you need to request access to.

Tap Request Access and the process will be inititated.

Once access is granted, their Vault will appear as a folder in your own Vault and will be labeled with their account email address.

How is Emergency Access secure?

LastPass uses public-private key cryptography with RSA-2048 to allow users to share the key to their vault with trusted parties, without ever passing that information in an unencrypted format to LastPass. When Emergency Access is activated, each user has a pair of cryptographic keys – a public key to allow others to encrypt data for the user, and a private key that allows the user to decrypt the data that others have encrypted for them.

The key used to encrypt and decrypt your vault data is encrypted with the Emergency Access contact’s public key, and can be decrypted only with their corresponding private key. When setting up Emergency Access, you are using the recipient’s public key, encrypting your vault key with that public key, and then LastPass stores that RSA-2048 encrypted data until it’s released after the waiting period you specify. Only the recipient can decrypt the data, so no one else can decrypt it without access to the private key of the recipient you’re sharing it with, which is encrypted with their master password key. This process is completely automated, with no action required by the end user, and ensures that the data is inaccessible by LastPass or outside parties.